Radio Industry

It's going to be a beautiful weekend for yard sale shopping. Avid shoppers should enter our first-ever Daily Press Yard Sale Shop-Off contest, where you can win cash prizes and free stuff, just for bargain shopping! You can find all of the details at dailypress.com/yardsale. To help get you started, here's a list of big sales this weekend: May 2-3. An indoor yard sale will be held at the Warwick Memorial United Methodist Church on Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day. The sale will benefit two church-sponsored mission trips. The church is at 38 Hoopes Road, Newport News. May 3. The first Saturday in May proves to...

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All too aware of the unrest that has unfolded in Ferguson, Mo., over the last two weeks, Staten Island business owners and residents are bracing for a march Saturday that some fear could turn unruly. The march, organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National...

The grand jury tasked with weighing criminal charges against the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown will have to make sense of a muddled and conflicting series of narratives over the next several weeks.
Accounts...

Here's a teeny-tiny idea, courtesy a slideshow on CNN.com attached to a summertime desperation slideshow story entitled “How to be an L.A. Local – 8 Tips for Faking It.”
I suppose it's a compliment that in the city with an unmerited reputation for...

Satellite TV giants DirecTV and Dish Network are looking for a landslide this fall — in political dollars.
For the first time, satellite broadcasters will be jockeying with other media outlets for a share of political spending that could top $3 billion...

Vadio, a start-up that integrates music videos into online music streaming services, has raised $2 million in seed funding from individual investors including former media and entertainment executives, the company said Thursday.Vadio pulls music videos...

Walt Disney Co. is planning to sell 23 radio stations and will begin distributing much of its Radio Disney content digitally, the company said Wednesday.
As a result of the expected sales, Radio Disney, which targets children and families with an array...

Robin Williams earned his first Oscar nomination playing U.S. Air Force Sgt. Adrian Cronauer in 1987's "Good Morning, Vietnam" -- but his real-life relationship with the military in the form of USO shows didn't get rolling until 2002.
Williams,...

George Nicholaw, the longtime general manager of KNX-AM (1070) who oversaw its rise into an award-winning, all-news giant and delivered on-air editorials that made his voice familiar to millions of Southern California listeners, died Sunday in Los...

ABC News Radio's distribution deal with radio giant Cumulus Media is coming to an end.
In a note to employees Thursday, recently appointed ABC News President James Goldston said the Walt Disney Co.-owned radio news organization will handle its own...

Father Augustine Puchner splashed holy water on a 99-Cent Store plate imprinted with an image of the Virgin Mary, then sprinkled crucifixes, a kneeling cherub, and the gold-colored cross attached to a small pedestal — the kind usually handed out at the...

After the coffee. Before breaking this heat wave.
The Skinny: It's Friday and I have to wear a suit today to tape a TV interview about the Dodgers TV mess. If that's not bad enough, the interview is in Universal City, where it will be even hotter....

Boosted by the popularity of its soccer telecasts, Spanish-language media giant Univision Communications' second-quarter profit more than doubled compared to the previous year.
For the quarter ended June 30, Univision posted net income of $98 million...

After the coffee. Before scrutinizing the Emmy nominations.
The Skinny: I watched the first episode of FX's "The Strain." I won't give anything away but I will say you will never hear "Sweet Caroline" the same way again after watching...

Nielsen said it has concluded an investigation into tampering of Los Angeles radio ratings, but stopped short of sanctioning Univision Communications for unethical conduct by a former station executive.
Dramatic swings in ratings this year were primarily...

Ratings giant Nielsen on Wednesday said it has concluded its investigation into inaccurate ratings in the Los Angeles radio market, but stopped short of sanctioning Univision Communications for alleged unethical conduct by a former station executive.
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Satellite broadcaster Dish Network wants the government to block Comcast Corp.'s proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable.
In meetings with top Federal Communications Commission officials earlier this week, Dish said a combination of Comcast and Time...

Why does anybody get into the online radio business?
Pandora is the king of all online music services, with 77 million active listeners at the end of last month. But even Pandora has struggled to turn a profit off its streams because the vast majority of...